December 26, 2024 • 46 mins
Rory the Storm, a vibrant and well-loved personality on TikTok, joins us to explore the dynamic world of blended families and social media fame. From his karate days earning him the moniker "the Storm" to his creative ventures like Band of Brothers and the Sock King on Instagram, Rory has a captivating story to tell. As my brother, our discussion extends beyond social media, diving into the personal realm of family ties and shared experiences. His insights into navigating family dynamics, especially within the context of a blended family, paint a rich, engaging picture of resilience and growth.
We also touch on the deeper aspects of sibling relationships that come with blending families. Sharing personal anecdotes about meeting siblings for the first time and adjusting to new family members, we explore the emotional rollercoaster that accompanies such life changes. Rory's tale of transitioning from an only child to part of a larger family highlights both the challenges and joys of family life. The conversation reveals how discipline and love helped in building strong relationships and acceptance among siblings, giving a glimpse into the heart of what makes a family bond unique.
Finally, the episode shines a light on the principles that form the bedrock of a harmonious family life—discipline, love, and mutual respect. Rory offers a personal take on how love is the cornerstone that can weather the storm of familial challenges. With stories of rebellion, adaptation, and ultimate acceptance, listeners will find inspiration in Rory's journey, especially as he looks to return for part two, promising more reflections on growing up in a blended family. Join us on this heartfelt exploration of family, identity, and the enduring power of love.
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Lanette (00:02):
Hey everybody, it's me, lynette, and we are blending
with the Frenchies.
Irin (00:08):
We have an amazing show today.
We've got a guest on thepodcast.
Lanette (00:16):
Who's our guest?
Irin (00:17):
The big homie Rory the Storm.
Lanette (00:21):
Rory the Storm.
Rory The Storm (00:26):
Good evening everybody.
How y'all doing tonight?
Lanette (00:29):
Yes, yes, for those who do not know if you are not
following Rory the Storm onTikTok and all forms of social
media, you need to stop whatyou're doing and follow him now.
He is quite the character.
He's quite the ladies' man.
He is quite the character.
He's quite the ladies man.
He's quite the Mr Personality.
He just wears a lot of hats.
(00:50):
What's up, bro?
Rory The Storm (00:52):
What's happening and first of all, I'd like to
say good evening, ladies andgentlemen, and all those in
between.
Lanette (01:01):
Yes, I was waiting for that.
Waiting for that, I told him Iwas going to steal his quote.
I kind of like that.
Good afternoon, ladies andgentlemen, and all those in
between.
Irin (01:12):
Oh, there she go, you can add it, that's pretty good.
Rory The Storm (01:17):
I tell you what words are for everybody.
We can share it.
Lanette (01:20):
I appreciate it, I love it, you know, I do.
Rory The Storm (01:25):
Go ahead.
Lanette (01:26):
No, I was just getting ready to say.
I know that your time is sovaluable.
We are so honored to even haveyou on here.
You have an amazing followingon TikTok.
You have your lives every night, and so we want to say thank
you so much for taking the timeto even come out to be on our
podcast.
Thank you, thank you.
Thank to say thank you so muchfor taking the time to even come
out to be on our podcast.
Irin (01:46):
Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you and, before
we actually get started, goahead and, you know, give me
your schedule, your tags andeverything so check me out.
Rory The Storm (01:56):
I am on tiktok at rory the storm.
My backup page is rory thestorm the one, so it's Rory the
Storm and Rory the Storm one.
And then I have a duet page.
I have a couple of duet pagesat Band of Brothers.
It's four of us guys and we gettogether and we lip sync songs
from the 90s and the 80s and the70s and even the 2000s, and
(02:19):
then my CD, my bad, my bad, mybad.
Irin (02:22):
Why ain't I part of this Band of Brothers?
Rory The Storm (02:23):
brother, oh, my bad, my bad, my bad.
Why ain't a part of this bandof brothers?
Brother, oh man, I mean, youknow you gotta be 40 plus.
Irin (02:31):
Oh, okay, there it is.
I'll keep going, bro.
I'll just, you know, try tochime in.
I want to be part of the bandtoo.
Rory The Storm (02:35):
Now go ahead then, then we, I have my cephas
and reese.
I don't know if y'all rememberin living color, the character
cephas and reese.
So me and my homegirl, diamondBlaze, we do Cephas and Recy 2.0
.
And it's just a duet page ofour shenanigans.
Man, you can find me on Ireally don't get on Facebook
anymore.
(02:55):
I'm also on Instagram Rory theStorm and the Sock King.
I have a sock page on Instagramand the Sock King I have a sock
page on Instagram and thenYouTube.
It's the thoughts of the stormthat I will be revisiting in the
first of 2024.
(03:16):
But yeah, mainly I'm on TikTok.
Come follow me on TikTok.
You're going to laugh andyou're going to laugh some more.
I do get serious from time totime.
It's just a whole bunch of myshenanigans and some of my
personality shines through.
That's some softness.
And also one more thing If yougo to the website wwwtammymccray
that's T-A-M-M-Y, M-C-C-R-A-Ydot com, and you do a search for
(03:40):
the Crimson Storm sock, youwill see my very own sock.
Use promo code DIMPLESD-I-M-P-L-E-S, the number 10,
and you'll get $10 off purchase.
Lanette (03:52):
That's what's up, man, you doing big things.
I just want to say that I'mproud of you.
Congratulations.
Rory The Storm (04:01):
I appreciate you , sister.
Lanette (04:02):
Yes.
So for those who do not know,this is my brother, y'all this
has to be my blood brother.
You know how y'all be like.
Oh yeah, that's my cousin,that's my brother, that's my
homie, my sister, but real talk,that's really my brother.
We have the same pops.
(04:23):
He looks just like my brother.
We have the same pops.
Rory The Storm (04:26):
He looks just like him.
We came out of the same.
Lanette (04:30):
Oh my God, ew you nasty .
Irin (04:34):
We actually got a Hold on.
Let me show you something.
Say it again Huh we came out ofthe same.
Rory The Storm (04:42):
We came from the same set of loins.
Lanette (04:44):
That's right, we had to censor something.
Wow, yes, yes.
So you guys, I am so elated tohave my big brother on our
podcast on today.
Now, before we really getstarted to introduce who you
really are, you've told you knowall of your streaming platforms
(05:09):
, but tell us a little bit aboutthe Storm and who you are.
Rory The Storm (05:15):
So the Storm is actually my nickname for karate.
A lot of people don't know thatI compete karate I'm on hiatus
right now but I compete karate.
And so the way I got thenickname was I was in training,
I compete karate I'm on hiatusright now, but I compete karate.
And so the way I got thenickname was I was in training
and I was training for my veryfirst tournament.
I think I was on Orange Beltand I was training for my very
first tournament and I got there, and so I thought I was going
(05:39):
to be in the beginner division,where there was a guy that was
from intermediate and a guy fromadvanced, and they lumped us
all in the beginner division,where there was a guy that was
from intermediate and a guy fromadvanced and they lumped us all
in the same division.
So I was kind of nervous.
I got through the first round,okay.
Got through the next round okay.
I got made it to the finals andthe guy was whooping my tail
four to one and it's only fivepoints, and so it was at that
(06:02):
time I'd be lined up for thelast point.
When I thought it was going tobe the last point, I looked at
my teacher and he looked at meas if to say you deal with him
in that ring or you deal with mein practice.
So I ended up winning thatmatch five to four.
Let's go boy.
It was against the guy that wasintermediate, the advanced guy
(06:22):
that got bounced out.
It was against the guy that wasintermediate and the advanced
guy that got bounced out.
It was against the guy that wasintermediate and me.
I'm still a beginner.
So the very next day in practice, my instructor said yeah, I
guess he wasn't ready for thatstorm, huh, and it just kind of
stuck.
It just kind of stuck.
So I've been riding that waveof the storm and it just
transcended itself into everydaylife.
(06:44):
A storm does a few things.
Yes, storms cause destruction,but storms also clear paths.
I'm that storm that clears thepath.
Lanette (06:55):
Come on sir.
Rory The Storm (06:57):
It's almost like controlled chaos, if you will.
I do get erratic from time totime, but it fits my personality
.
And you say well, what kind ofstorm is it?
It's an amalgam of y'all needto look that word up an amalgam.
It's an amalgam of a hurricane,a thunderstorm, a tsunami, some
raindrops, whatever storm thatyou can think of, tornado,
(07:18):
whatever storm you can think of.
That's what I embody.
Irin (07:24):
What's up man.
That's beautiful man.
That's what I embody.
Lanette (07:28):
What's up?
Man that's beautiful, manthat's beautiful.
Rory The Storm (07:32):
Yeah, you my brother, but really I am.
So a lot of people.
You see, what you get on socialmedia is the storm, and my
sister can attest to this.
A few people know Rory Holmes.
My sister knows Rory Holmes.
If we can segue into the topicof blending with the French and
(07:54):
talking about blended families,I met my sister for the first
time well before you were bornand then four years later, when
you were four years old and Iwalked into the house.
I remember walking into thehouse from the airport, dad had
picked me up and I walked intothe house and you kind of looked
(08:17):
at me and you said no.
You asked, you said Mom, who isthis?
And she said that's yourbrother.
And your eyes got real big andyou said I have a brother.
I'm your brother, rory, andyou're Lynette huh, and your
eyes got really big and eitheryou ran into the room.
(08:42):
I remember you ended up leavingthe kitchen for whatever and I
was like, okay, cool, whatever.
And I went up and I spoke toSam and uh, yeah, that was that.
And I remember I ended up goingto sleep.
I went to my room and I endedup going to sleep for the day
because I was tired from thatflight, uh, from from Dallas,
texas, um, but yeah, that thatwas the beginning of your and
(09:06):
our, your and my relationship,yeah.
Lanette (09:11):
I appreciate you sharing that, because I don't
even think I knew that story upuntil now.
Rory The Storm (09:17):
Mm-hmm.
Go ahead.
Lanette (09:19):
No, I was going to say like I don't.
So I have to be honest, I neverknew that you were my half
brother until.
I was in high school.
Rory The Storm (09:32):
Oh, wow, yes.
Lanette (09:33):
I never knew.
And one thing about us being ablended family that I will say
and you can correct me if I'mwrong, but it was never really
announced like, oh, this is yourstepbrother, this is your
stepsister.
When we went out, I never heardmy parents say, oh, this is my
(09:55):
stepson or this is my, you knowmy son by another woman.
I never knew that until highschool.
Right, Did you have a?
Rory The Storm (10:07):
different.
So me being me at 14, 15 yearsold and all of my infinite
wisdom then, I was always goingto make it known that we have
the same father and not the samemother.
And that was just me being ajerk.
(10:29):
I'll be completely honest, thatwas me being a jerk, instead of
just saying you know what youknow, it is what it is, I don't
care about these people and I'mgoing to just be honest,
absolutely.
Lanette (10:39):
I didn't care about.
Rory The Storm (10:41):
I didn't care about them church folks enough
to even say that Tildy God resther soul was my stepmom and
after a while I was just youknow what Bump it.
That's my mother, and I'll tellyou, when I really came to that
realization, me and Sam wereoutside playing wiffle ball and
(11:07):
we had got into an argument orwhatever as brothers did so hold
on real quick.
Lanette (11:14):
You talked about you and Sam, which, for those who do
not know, that is my biologicalbrother.
We have the same mom and wehave the same dad and you all
have the same father, so yeah,so perhaps.
At least yeah yeah, so how oldwere you and sam, how?
What difference do you all havein age?
Rory The Storm (11:34):
we have a three-year difference.
Now.
Here's where it gets a littlefuzzy for me.
I can remember and then momtalked about it a little bit uh,
when I was like a little boy Iwould come visit, and I don't
know if you remember jasonhickman, one of my high school
teammates yes uh, me and jasonwould play together at the bowl.
(11:57):
Y'all don't know the bowlerswhere the jacksonville crimsons
play basketball.
Shout out to jgs, um, um.
And so me, me and Jason Hickmanwould play together.
And then I also found out mynon-biological brother, mick.
We had the same babysitter whenwe were kids, so I guess me and
Jason and Mick have all knowneach other ever since we were
(12:18):
like three years old, and so Iremembered Sam.
I think I was maybe nine.
He may have been six.
That's when they were.
I believe they were living downon Koskiasko, if I'm not
mistaken.
I vaguely remember that house,but I've always remembered 512.
(12:41):
When I was 12, I came for avisit.
Sam was nine.
That's when I really realizedokay, this is my brother.
The memory started from then,but before then the details get
really fuzzy.
I do remember, though, playingin the steps of the bowl when I
was a little little kid.
Lanette (13:02):
So how was y'all relationship?
Rory The Storm (13:05):
So Sam and I, we're both off and on.
And when you go from being theeldest child To being the middle
child, it kind of he won't evertell you this, but it kind of
plays on your psyche a littlebit when you go from being an
(13:27):
only child I was an only child,he won't ever tell you this, but
it kind of plays on your psychea little bit when you go from
being an only child I was anonly child so never having to
share anything with anybodybecause you know it was always
about me.
Then you go into a situationwhere man, now I got to share a
space with this dude, I got toshare toys with this dude or
share whatever, even down tosharing clothes, you know, with
(13:47):
this guy.
And the selfish me was like man, I don't know this dude like
that for real, like okay, he'scool, he's my brother, y'all say
that.
But the chemistry really wasn'tthere for Sam and I and we kind
of bickered a lot until we gotto the point where we were just
(14:08):
like you know what this isstupid with family, blah, blah,
blah.
And to circle back, when Ireally knew it was real, sam and
I got to an argument and shehad both of us coming to the
house, tilly had both of uscoming to the house and she oh
shoot, she hit me, she,quote-unquote whooped me with a
(14:31):
fly swatter.
So, you got disciplined by her.
Yeah, and I was like you knowwhat?
This woman is really crazy.
I guess I've been this for along time.
(14:53):
And I asked her probably abouta week after that, because I was
calling her miss Tilly.
Uh, I asked her.
I said is it okay if I call youmom?
Lanette (14:57):
and she said absolutely so okay, babe, you were a only
child for a while, correct?
Irin (15:05):
14 years.
Lanette (15:06):
How did that affect you bringing in a sibling?
Did you have the same feelingsthat Rory is expressing, that he
had?
Irin (15:16):
I'm going to be honest with you.
No, I moved out when I was 16,so by the time my brother was
two years old, I was already outthe house.
It was more of an uncle-nephewrelationship, so as far as like
having the actuality of BlackMac out or brother.
(15:36):
Now that still to this day isstill like.
You know, it's not.
I mean, he's my brother, butwe're not in the same league
we're.
Lanette (15:45):
My son is only like a few years younger so do you feel
like his uncle versus hisbrother?
Yeah, okay, I just wanted totake a see how that was for you
if you all had similarities.
Rory The Storm (15:57):
So go ahead go ahead.
I was gonna say and so thething is between for you and I,
we're what?
11 years apart, right, and Ididn't feel like I'm not going
to understand where Aaron'scoming from, but for me, yeah,
you were a little sister All daylong.
(16:19):
You felt like I wasn't, didn'tfeel like a niece or anything
like that or anybody just in thehouse.
You were definitely a littlesister, you know.
Lanette (16:27):
Is it because I was a?
Rory The Storm (16:28):
girl.
You know what?
No, no, if you were, if I wasmaybe 20 and you were four, or
if I was like 17, 18 and youwere four, then I'd have been
like who's this little kid, youknow?
But at 14, 15 years old, it wasonly 11 years different.
(16:49):
So it was, you know.
It kind of looked like it waswhat's the word I want to use.
It kind of looked like it waswhat's the word I want to use.
It looked normal.
You had a 14-year-old, you hadan 11-year-old, a 15-year-old, a
12-year-old and a 4-year-old inthe house.
Irin (17:03):
See, and I think, that's.
I'm sorry, that's.
The difference is because I wasthe only child.
There was nobody else there.
So then, once my brother wasborn, I was excited for him, but
at the same time I didn't getto have that one-on-one let's go
fight, let's play football.
(17:23):
We didn't have that.
Lanette (17:25):
If you and child played football with him, you would
have messed him up, we probablystill would have been laying
there.
Irin (17:32):
Yeah, so by the time he was two, like I said, by the
time he was two I was graduatingout of high school, I moved out
and I was 16.
So I still I mean I was a kidmyself looking back at it now,
but at the time, man, I wasgrown in my eyes.
Lanette (17:46):
Right.
Rory The Storm (17:47):
Right, and I know, for me, I always wanted
siblings.
So to come into a place where,even though I was selfish as I
was, to come into a place where,even though I was selfish as I
was, to come into a place where,man, I got a little brother and
I got a little sister, wow,this is cool, you know.
Lanette (18:06):
so, yeah, that's what I wanted low key and you were
blessed with me and you wereblessed with me you know, and
you were blessed with me.
Rory The Storm (18:20):
Huh, and you were blessed with me.
You know, they teach us inSunday school not to tell lies.
Lanette (18:25):
Oh boy, come on, come to Jesus.
Yeah, I love my brother.
Rory The Storm (18:33):
Here's the real, for real.
You are the embodiment of thesibling that I wanted.
The only difference is to me itwould have been perfect if you
were a boy.
Huh, because I would have beenlike as a kid brother, I could
push you around and blah, blah,blah.
But the fact that you were agirl made it even more sweet,
(18:55):
because now I really I felt likeI really had to protect you and
he did y'all this one here.
Lanette (19:03):
Don't you do nothing to me, because that mortal combat
stuff that he'd be practicing onthe taekwondo, what is it?
A field or what is it?
Rory The Storm (19:14):
the mats, on the mats of the ring, when it comes
to his little sister.
Lanette (19:18):
He will use get over here and he will KO you, so
don't mess with me.
I appreciate him for that soyou feel like if I was a boy, it
would have been different itdefinitely would have been
different.
Rory The Storm (19:35):
I think we would have been different.
It definitely would have beendifferent.
I think we would have beenallowed to roughhouse you a
little more and just really pushyou around a little bit more
than we did, because at onepoint the rule of the house was
no jokes, no roasting Right,that makes me cry.
And so one of your brothers weain't going to.
(19:57):
And so so one of your brotherswe ain't going to mention no
names one of your brothers wouldtry to goad you into roasting
and they'd be like are youjoaning?
Like that.
Lanette (20:06):
Are you joaning like that?
Yes, and light me up, and thenI would cry and go tell Right,
so babe do you see that here atthe house Do I see it roasting?
Yeah, and then somebody comesrunning to you crying 24-7.
And what happens when she comesrunning to you crying?
Irin (20:27):
We talk about my baby.
Lanette (20:28):
Yeah.
Irin (20:29):
We're not going to talk about what you know she do what
she's supposed to do.
Lanette (20:33):
Oh, okay, she's supposed to do that Y'all, I'm
living the same life.
So my daughter, our daughter,does what I did.
She provokes her brothers.
She doesn't.
Rory The Storm (20:44):
Oh, okay, oh yeah, oh, come on now.
You wrote the book, I wrote thebook.
Irin (20:50):
Right.
Lanette (20:52):
You wrote the book.
Well, you know, it's just.
Irin (20:55):
She still do it to this day.
Who me?
Rory The Storm (21:01):
No.
Irin (21:02):
She might not.
She's not going to talk crazy.
She ain't going to join on you,but she'll talk crazy.
And then try to run and hide nonot I.
Oh my gosh, I've doneeverything right.
Lanette (21:13):
No, I don't act that way.
Alright, brother, help himbecause he may be on the couch
tonight.
Irin (21:19):
He does.
Rory The Storm (21:24):
No, I ain't got nothing to do with that.
The only scripture I can offeris the bedroom is not defiled.
Oh my gosh.
Lanette (21:35):
Lord help him Jesus.
Rory The Storm (21:36):
Lord help him.
Jesus, lynette had an uncannyway of she couldn't beat us
physically, but Lynette is verycerebral, very cerebral, so she
had this doll Baby G.
Lanette (21:51):
That my grandmother gave to me from Honduras.
I love her.
Shout out to Granny Annie.
Rory The Storm (21:58):
So she had this baby gene and when I first met
baby gene I thought baby genewas a weapon Because she would
sling around and bust herselfout the head with this dog.
So I think the very firstaccount I had with baby gene, I
smashed her up and I think Ipunched her.
Lanette (22:16):
That was the wrong thing to do.
Rory The Storm (22:20):
The cry this little girl let out.
He punched Baby Jean.
He's not my Baby Jean, and Igot in trouble for that.
Never mind the fact that thisgirl, never mind the fact that
you were terrorizing me withthis doll and I'm like Dad,
she's hitting us with the dog.
You're bigger than me, althoughshe's a little girl.
She's six years old.
(22:41):
You shouldn't, man.
Why are you letting that?
I'm just like man.
She get a pass Exactly Forbeing a butt.
Lanette (22:47):
I was just trying to help you, so shout out to me,
because if it was not for meSwingin' Baby Jean, you would
not be the Taekwondo king thatyou are today.
Irin (22:58):
Baby, he does not do Taekwondo, he's in karate.
Lanette (23:03):
Well, you wouldn't be the karate kid that you are
today.
Rory The Storm (23:08):
It's the same thing.
Kick is a kick, punch is apunch.
Everybody just have differenttheories on how it should be
used.
It is what it is.
At the end of the day, we allthrow the same picks on the same
bunch.
But no, this little girl was aterror.
Lynette, you were a terror.
Who me?
Yes, you.
But the thing is, I loved youso much so I kind of looked past
(23:28):
that.
Lanette (23:31):
Love conquers all.
Rory The Storm (23:33):
Love conquers all, but you were a terror.
You used to get on my nerves.
I can't speak for our othersisters, but I know for me.
You used to get on my nerves,but I knew at the end of the day
, as a little sister, that'swhat you were supposed to do.
You know, preach, we loved eachother.
At the end of the day, we lovedeach other.
(23:54):
At the end of the day, we lovedeach other.
We may have had our infighting,we still may not see eye to eye
to this day about certainthings, but there was two things
.
I know for sure that my littlesister loved me and I love my
little sister Bottom line and Iwould do anything still to this
(24:15):
day.
So, aaron, don't mess up likereal long.
No, I mean, I love you, brother,but my boy, my boy, man, I told
you already, I already told youalready, man the experiences
that I had with you and Samueluh, uh, transited to later on in
(24:35):
life when I married into afamily, uh, that that children
were present, and then to bringin my own children into a second
marriage, uh, after that firstdivorce, into a second marriage
where, where children werepresent.
And now, knowing how to navigatethat and I'm blessed to to to
(24:57):
have found that woman and shewas doing right by those kids
and to the point where they werelike, well, you're not my dad,
you know I was able todiscipline them how I saw fit at
that time.
Um, if they cut up uh which wasrare, which is really rare, um,
she was able to discipline mine.
If they cut up uh which wasrare, which is really rare, um,
(25:18):
she was able to discipline mine.
If they cut up, which was rare,um, but we, we had the
precursor to blending with theFrench's, if you will, um if I
could just stop you right herereal quick.
Lanette (25:34):
Let's go ahead rewind real quick.
Hold that thought, though.
We're on the topic ofdiscipline, right?
You mentioned that?
Uh, my mom shout out to her um,who was your stepmother?
You mentioned that at one pointshe got the floss water, and
she got you with the floss water.
Tell us as far as disciplinecame down with your stepmom,
(26:00):
which was my mother how were you?
Disciplined.
Were you disciplined, did youget a free pass?
How did that work?
Because she wasn't yourbiological mother.
How was that so?
Rory The Storm (26:11):
back then kids grew up with something called
respect and so out of respectfor my father and the woman he
married, and out of respect forher being an adult, and out of
respect for my mother and beingtaught, you know you don't
disrespect adults that's wherethe discipline didn't bother me,
(26:33):
you know, not as far as theeffectiveness, but her
discipline in me.
That's what I expected.
If I cut up and she was the oneclosest, okay, she was the one
that gave it to me like I was inher house.
Lanette (26:48):
I mean, you don't have to be extremely specific, like
if she.
I know she didn't abuse youbecause you're still here, but,
like I know you know, maybe mywhoopings were a little
different than your whoopingsbecause I was her biological
child, or do you feel like shedidn't care about a biological
step?
Did she just just to put us allin the way that she saw fit?
Rory The Storm (27:09):
so she did not.
Uh, status isn't didn't matterto tamar, uh, the fact that I
was a teenager 14, 15, 16, 17,18.
The fact that I was a teenager,I think, had a major, so you
were still an adolescent child.
So the physical discipline, okyeah, but when it came to me it
(27:31):
was more verbal.
Now I remember there was onetime, a few times, where I
believe she might have saidsomething to Dad and he stepped
in and handled business.
But as far as discipline withmine, it was more verbal than
(27:53):
anything and Mom was sharp.
Oh man, there was no getting.
You couldn't outwit TildyHolmes, you really couldn't.
I thought I was sharp, butMama's two steps ahead.
Lanette (28:07):
Always two steps ahead.
She would always tell me myfeet were going left and I'm
like no, they're not Knowingthat they were going left.
She was like those feet goingleft.
And I'm like where you talkingabout get mad Because I knew she
was right, but of course I'mtrying to defend myself.
I'm like where you talkingabout my feet ain't going left
and I'm looking down as if sheliterally told me my feet are
(28:28):
going left.
She's like Lynette those feetgoing left.
It was that discernment she had.
Rory The Storm (28:37):
It.
It was that discernment she had, that it was normal.
So I said all that to say thatit was normal.
I felt like, okay, cool, sheopened up her doors because with
the same amount of disciplinecame the same amount of love.
She never differentiated thelove and it took me a long time
to understand that because Ireally thought, uh, I wanted to
(29:01):
play the narrative of uh, uh,you and sam were the favorite
children and at the end I thinkI really it.
It took me into my 30s, I'm notgonna lie.
It took me into my 30s torealize we all were loved
differently and we will love thebest way they knew how children
(29:22):
don't come with a man, so wewill love the best way.
They knew how dad was wrote waskind of raised with the iron
fist, so to speak.
You know, uh, uh, and he didhis best.
Mom did did her best with whatthey were given, just thankful
they were educators.
(29:42):
They were two smart people Forreal, highly intelligent people,
but they thought it was bestfor us and they loved us the way
we needed to be loved Me.
I was a hard head.
I needed to be loved Me.
I was a hard head, so I neededto be, I needed to be, they
needed to stand on my neck fromtime to time.
(30:03):
Sam was going to do what Samwas going to do.
Sam, to me, was always agoody-goody.
So Sam really didn't.
He stepped to me, he steppedout a little bit, but he really
wasn't going to go full throttle.
You know, he bounced out theboundaries a little bit.
Oh, let me get back to theboundaries.
You and I are enough with it,man.
Lanette (30:22):
I feel like we was like give us our whooping, we're
going to do what we got to do.
What's the consequence?
Okay, well, we'll just dealwith it.
And you know, iron, how are youwhen it came to your choices in
life, for you the type that'slike I'm going to stay in the
box or I'm going to bounce outand take the repercussions as
(30:45):
they come.
Irin (30:46):
I've always did what I wanted to do.
It don't matter who you are andwhat the consequences will be,
so much so that I've had my dooroff the hinge for literally a
year.
I literally could not.
I didn't have a door on my home.
Lanette (31:04):
Like they took your door off.
Irin (31:07):
I was growing something in my room For a whole year and my
mom ran a daycare at the time.
The same as that time I had todrive-thru, we came from.
I'll do what I want.
Lanette (31:24):
So we could have been billionaires.
We could have been billionaires.
Do you remember that stuff?
Yeah, I do.
Rory The Storm (31:31):
Okay, well, we're not going to discriminate
all of us Exactly.
Irin (31:38):
Well, technically we're in Illinois, so it's legal here.
Rory The Storm (31:42):
But uh, I mean, I'm still in Texas, though, oh
yeah.
Irin (31:46):
No, but as far as uh, as far as this been on my end, it
was definitely different.
Um, it was.
You know you do something wrongat somebody's house.
They're reliable, they'reliable to whoop you or punch you
or whatever.
You know, whatever was going on, whatever they could find
whatever they could find andthrow at you.
That's what it was.
(32:07):
So, yeah, as far as being agoody, two shoes, no, I just
kind of learned how to maneuveraround things.
Lanette (32:16):
I was a black sheep of the field so I was trying to be
sneaky, you know, but at thesame time, with no, I'm going to
do what I'm going to do and I'mgoing to take my consequence.
But at the same time, I don'tthink I was bold enough to just
be like oh, I'm gonna do whatI'm gonna do and let them know
that.
My actions, though, show that Iwas gonna do.
Irin (32:37):
And then well, I mean, I didn't go and necessarily tell
like, hey, my mom started doingthis.
No, I was trying to be sneaky,but I wanted some Jordan, so I
wanted umans.
I wanted the things thateverybody else had that their
parents was able to give them.
So on my end, it was not sayingthat my parents couldn't give
me what I wanted.
They did the best they could.
Lanette (32:59):
And they hadn't thought it was necessary.
Irin (33:01):
Exactly.
They're sitting there trying tobuy houses.
I'm sitting there like man, youknow.
Lanette (33:07):
I can get the stuff in there, my Air Force One oh right
.
He went to two pair, so yeah.
Irin (33:18):
I was a kid and I was in high track classes with six
bottom rows, gold teeth, twotops, princess, cut at 14.
Oh, my.
Like I said, that's not sayingnothing from the parenting
aspect, of saying that I justdid what I wanted to do and I
(33:38):
was a product of my environmentand the culture.
How about that, gotcha?
Lanette (33:45):
So we have What'd you say?
So we have.
Say that again.
Rory The Storm (33:53):
Interested in life?
Lanette (33:54):
Yes, interested in life , for sure.
So we are three differentpeople Coming from Two of the
same household, but you also hadyour mother, who disciplined
you in a certain way.
So we'll just say threedifferent households that were
brought up.
How, then, as an adult Rory,you talked about you ended up
(34:22):
marrying into a blended family,not one time, but twice.
So how was marrying into ablended family for you,
especially coming from achildhood of a blended family?
Rory The Storm (34:40):
To me it just felt natural.
It felt natural it wasn't athing of man.
She got kids.
Now, the first marriage I waswithout children, going into a
marriage where the woman hadchildren already.
You got kids.
(35:01):
You ain't got no kids.
But I understood the role.
I understood what it meant tobe a step parent.
My mother remarried and so Ihad a stepfather in the house at
one point.
How was that it was?
(35:25):
I knew dad was my dad, but hisname was Bill.
Bill was my dad too.
Bill was there constantly anddad was just there.
Whenever, you know, whenever, Iwould go see Biddy that's our
grandma, lucille, by the way,because all of them don't know
(35:46):
and I would go see Didier, righton.
I would see him and the storieshe would tell, yeah, we would
go to baseball games, we'd gosee the Astros, and this one I
was a little boy, like littlelittle boy.
(36:08):
So I do and I do vaguelybecause I remember Lillian being
there a lot.
Lillian watched me a lot.
I do remember that day in thatchurch.
I do remember sitting in theback of that church and that's a
whole nother story for a wholenother time.
I'm sorry.
I do vaguely remember I'm wholenother story for a whole nother
time.
I'm sorry.
I do vaguely remember, I'msorry.
Even though I was a little boy,I do vaguely remember sitting
(36:28):
in the back of that churchbecause I was cutting up.
I do because I remember lilliantrying to calm me down.
I just wouldn't calm down, um,but yeah.
So I knew he was around, I knewwho he was.
It's just, he just wasn't withyou come again.
Lanette (36:47):
So, dad, just when he back then, when you were little,
are you saying then you knowwhen it was time for him to have
you on his weeks or whatever,that you would more than likely
be with auntie or grandma?
Um?
Rory The Storm (37:02):
he would see.
I would be, I would see him anduh, but I remember spending a
lot of time with jackie andbeulah and didia lillian sherman
was there from time to time,elroy and uh.
Who else?
(37:24):
Uncle michael?
Lanette (37:25):
so these are, for those of you that do not know, these
are our cousins, these are ouraunts, uncles, um, and sometimes
this is what happens when youhave a blended family.
You know when it's time for dadto get the kids.
We know dad comes to pick upthe kids, and sometimes dad
takes the kids elsewhere, and soI didn't know if he was working
(37:49):
or what have you.
Rory The Storm (37:51):
Because I mean, then I can remember I was five,
six, seven, eight, and I thinkgrandma moved back to
Mississippi at one point.
She did live in Houston at onepoint, I do remember that.
And then she I get fuzzy she,at some point she did move back
(38:13):
to Mississippi and then by then,you know, dad was in Illinois.
Um, so I there's a lot ofthings that the details get kind
of fuzzy on Right, um, but Isaid all that to say from so,
coming from a blended background, I knew what it was to be a
step-parent.
I knew the importance of beinga good role model Because, for
(38:34):
all intents and purposes, billwas a good role model.
He had his vices, like we alldo, but Bill was a good role
model.
Lanette (38:42):
How long was he in your life and is he still in your
life?
Rory The Storm (38:48):
Or oh no, he passed years ago, Maybe from the
time I was four or five upuntil the time I was about nine.
Lanette (39:04):
So then, with Mr Bill God rest his soul did you feel
as if you needed to give him ahard time because you felt like
he wasn't your father?
Or do you feel like oh man,here's a man in our home, he's
treating me nicely, Let me givehim respect.
How does that look for you?
Rory The Storm (39:26):
He was just my dad, that's just.
He was just.
He was just my dad.
I mean, that's what it was.
He was my dad.
I knew he I could.
I didn't know he wasn't,because I didn't know how that
stuff worked.
Five years old, six years old Idon't know how that stuff works
um, I knew he wasn't like mydad, but he was the dude that
(39:47):
was there fulfilling that role.
I didn't look like him.
Go ahead.
Lanette (39:53):
No, I wanted to take the time out right now to shout
out all of the men in the entireworld who are like Mr Bill, for
those men who come intochildren's lives and do not
treat their child or thechildren differently.
Although they may not be yourbiological children, you still
(40:16):
love them, you provide for them,you protect them.
That says a lot about yourcharacter as men, and I
personally want to shout out you, sweetheart, thank you, thank
you, thank you so much becauseyou have stepped up in a huge
way as our children's bonusfather.
You are there for them, youprovide, you protect.
(40:38):
And so, uh, rory, you as well.
You've been in this situation.
Thank you all so much.
It really means a lot whenchildren can look up.
Thank you all so much.
It really means a lot whenchildren can look up to you all
and not feel, feel bad aboutsituations, but they feel loved.
That really says a lot.
Rory The Storm (40:55):
Shout out to you men out there Thank you, and so
here's the thing we appreciateyou.
Here's the thing I wasn'talways the best.
If we're going to say that, Ihave to be all the way honest, I
wasn't always the best, but onething I did was I never, ever,
even though me and the mothersmay have fallen out or my
infidelities, I'm just going tobe honest my infidelities, my
(41:18):
irresponsibilities, myfoolishness, even though me and
the mothers had ourdisagreements and our falling
away, I never closed off accessto the children, whether
(41:39):
Felicia's children or Kataya'schildren.
I never cut off access.
Now, if they want to reach outor didn't want to reach out, hey
, but I never would tell them no, whether they knew that or not.
And I've had conversations asthey've gotten older, with
Felicia's children.
We've had conversations, man,and I apologize for not being
(42:05):
the role model I should havebeen Well, 100%, I should have
been 100%, but I think that's atime for a different show.
We'll have to do a part two.
Lanette (42:21):
Absolutely.
Rory The Storm (42:23):
But at that point, yes, I did step up and
was fathered for a number ofyears to Felicia's children and
then to Kataya's children andeven to this day.
You know, elena, elena willreach out and we'll chitchat a
little bit and keep it pushing.
Chit-chat a little bit and keepit pushing.
(42:44):
But for those men that arestepping into those roles, be
prepared to get abused by thosechildren.
You know, I will say I did havea great group of children.
They were very respectful, youknow.
But you know kids were kids.
They got out of pocket.
(43:10):
You know you discipline andthen you keep it pushing.
So shout out, like you said,shout out to all the men that
have stepped up in those rolesfor it and and and I, I uh, my
hat's off to you, iron, my hat'soff to you.
Man, uh, you stepped into a big, big role, man, and as Lynette,
you stepped into into a bigrole as well.
Y'all are really doing it.
I am so proud of y'all.
I know I joke a lot.
I'm talking about how sweety'all are and y'all get a
(43:31):
toothache, but I admire y'all.
Y'all are really hashtag goals.
I wish this would blow up to beon a grander scale, because
really people need to look aty'all's lives y'all, and emulate
what's going on in yourhousehold.
I may not know all the detailsand I know common sense will
(43:53):
tell me everything ain't perfectRight, but I know that you guys
are doing the absolute best job, and a great job at raising
those eight children and takingcare of that dog absolutely.
Lanette (44:11):
That really means a lot and, yes, we are not perfect by
all means.
That's why we have this podcast, because we are not only
wanting to share our story, butwe also want others to know,
like, hey, if you have uhinsight for us, please share it
with us, because we want to bethe best versions of ourselves
(44:31):
that we can be, because whenwe're the best versions of
ourselves, we can be the bestfor our children.
We know that there comesconflict, we know that there
comes uh situations, but we alsoknow that with God, all things
are possible and we know thatlove conquers all.
Love will always be.
Rory The Storm (44:53):
And that's the bottom line.
If you build the foundation onlove without getting too
spiritual, because I know that'snot me but if you build the
foundation on love, love initself if you build upon that,
you can't go wrong.
You know, if you, at the coreof the relationships between the
(45:16):
children, the relationshipsbetween the mother and the
father and the relationshipbetween the whole family, is
love, will you have bickers?
Do you have the conflict?
Yes, but if you can come downand boil it down at the end of
the day, but we love each other,I think you can't go wrong.
Lanette (45:36):
Well, everybody, you have heard it from the one and
only Rory the Storm.
We are so excited that he wasable to talk to us about being a
part of the family.
Stay tuned for part two, wherewe will continue our
conversation with him expressingwhat it's like coming from a
blended family as well ascreating his own family.
(45:59):
I'm lynette and we are blendingwith the frenchies.
Hey everybody, it's me, lynette, and we are blending
with the Frenchies.
Irin (00:08):
We have an amazing show today.
We've got a guest on thepodcast.
Lanette (00:16):
Who's our guest?
Irin (00:17):
The big homie Rory the Storm.
Lanette (00:21):
Rory the Storm.
Rory The Storm (00:26):
Good evening everybody.
How y'all doing tonight?
Lanette (00:29):
Yes, yes, for those who do not know if you are not
following Rory the Storm onTikTok and all forms of social
media, you need to stop whatyou're doing and follow him now.
He is quite the character.
He's quite the ladies' man.
He is quite the character.
He's quite the ladies man.
He's quite the Mr Personality.
He just wears a lot of hats.
(00:50):
What's up, bro?
Rory The Storm (00:52):
What's happening and first of all, I'd like to
say good evening, ladies andgentlemen, and all those in
between.
Lanette (01:01):
Yes, I was waiting for that.
Waiting for that, I told him Iwas going to steal his quote.
I kind of like that.
Good afternoon, ladies andgentlemen, and all those in
between.
Irin (01:12):
Oh, there she go, you can add it, that's pretty good.
Rory The Storm (01:17):
I tell you what words are for everybody.
We can share it.
Lanette (01:20):
I appreciate it, I love it, you know, I do.
Rory The Storm (01:25):
Go ahead.
Lanette (01:26):
No, I was just getting ready to say.
I know that your time is sovaluable.
We are so honored to even haveyou on here.
You have an amazing followingon TikTok.
You have your lives every night, and so we want to say thank
you so much for taking the timeto even come out to be on our
podcast.
Thank you, thank you.
Thank to say thank you so muchfor taking the time to even come
out to be on our podcast.
Irin (01:46):
Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you and, before
we actually get started, goahead and, you know, give me
your schedule, your tags andeverything so check me out.
Rory The Storm (01:56):
I am on tiktok at rory the storm.
My backup page is rory thestorm the one, so it's Rory the
Storm and Rory the Storm one.
And then I have a duet page.
I have a couple of duet pagesat Band of Brothers.
It's four of us guys and we gettogether and we lip sync songs
from the 90s and the 80s and the70s and even the 2000s, and
(02:19):
then my CD, my bad, my bad, mybad.
Irin (02:22):
Why ain't I part of this Band of Brothers?
Rory The Storm (02:23):
brother, oh, my bad, my bad, my bad.
Why ain't a part of this bandof brothers?
Brother, oh man, I mean, youknow you gotta be 40 plus.
Irin (02:31):
Oh, okay, there it is.
I'll keep going, bro.
I'll just, you know, try tochime in.
I want to be part of the bandtoo.
Rory The Storm (02:35):
Now go ahead then, then we, I have my cephas
and reese.
I don't know if y'all rememberin living color, the character
cephas and reese.
So me and my homegirl, diamondBlaze, we do Cephas and Recy 2.0
.
And it's just a duet page ofour shenanigans.
Man, you can find me on Ireally don't get on Facebook
anymore.
(02:55):
I'm also on Instagram Rory theStorm and the Sock King.
I have a sock page on Instagramand the Sock King I have a sock
page on Instagram and thenYouTube.
It's the thoughts of the stormthat I will be revisiting in the
first of 2024.
(03:16):
But yeah, mainly I'm on TikTok.
Come follow me on TikTok.
You're going to laugh andyou're going to laugh some more.
I do get serious from time totime.
It's just a whole bunch of myshenanigans and some of my
personality shines through.
That's some softness.
And also one more thing If yougo to the website wwwtammymccray
that's T-A-M-M-Y, M-C-C-R-A-Ydot com, and you do a search for
(03:40):
the Crimson Storm sock, youwill see my very own sock.
Use promo code DIMPLESD-I-M-P-L-E-S, the number 10,
and you'll get $10 off purchase.
Lanette (03:52):
That's what's up, man, you doing big things.
I just want to say that I'mproud of you.
Congratulations.
Rory The Storm (04:01):
I appreciate you , sister.
Lanette (04:02):
Yes.
So for those who do not know,this is my brother, y'all this
has to be my blood brother.
You know how y'all be like.
Oh yeah, that's my cousin,that's my brother, that's my
homie, my sister, but real talk,that's really my brother.
We have the same pops.
(04:23):
He looks just like my brother.
We have the same pops.
Rory The Storm (04:26):
He looks just like him.
We came out of the same.
Lanette (04:30):
Oh my God, ew you nasty .
Irin (04:34):
We actually got a Hold on.
Let me show you something.
Say it again Huh we came out ofthe same.
Rory The Storm (04:42):
We came from the same set of loins.
Lanette (04:44):
That's right, we had to censor something.
Wow, yes, yes.
So you guys, I am so elated tohave my big brother on our
podcast on today.
Now, before we really getstarted to introduce who you
really are, you've told you knowall of your streaming platforms
(05:09):
, but tell us a little bit aboutthe Storm and who you are.
Rory The Storm (05:15):
So the Storm is actually my nickname for karate.
A lot of people don't know thatI compete karate I'm on hiatus
right now but I compete karate.
And so the way I got thenickname was I was in training,
I compete karate I'm on hiatusright now, but I compete karate.
And so the way I got thenickname was I was in training
and I was training for my veryfirst tournament.
I think I was on Orange Beltand I was training for my very
first tournament and I got there, and so I thought I was going
(05:39):
to be in the beginner division,where there was a guy that was
from intermediate and a guy fromadvanced, and they lumped us
all in the beginner division,where there was a guy that was
from intermediate and a guy fromadvanced and they lumped us all
in the same division.
So I was kind of nervous.
I got through the first round,okay.
Got through the next round okay.
I got made it to the finals andthe guy was whooping my tail
four to one and it's only fivepoints, and so it was at that
(06:02):
time I'd be lined up for thelast point.
When I thought it was going tobe the last point, I looked at
my teacher and he looked at meas if to say you deal with him
in that ring or you deal with mein practice.
So I ended up winning thatmatch five to four.
Let's go boy.
It was against the guy that wasintermediate, the advanced guy
(06:22):
that got bounced out.
It was against the guy that wasintermediate and the advanced
guy that got bounced out.
It was against the guy that wasintermediate and me.
I'm still a beginner.
So the very next day in practice, my instructor said yeah, I
guess he wasn't ready for thatstorm, huh, and it just kind of
stuck.
It just kind of stuck.
So I've been riding that waveof the storm and it just
transcended itself into everydaylife.
(06:44):
A storm does a few things.
Yes, storms cause destruction,but storms also clear paths.
I'm that storm that clears thepath.
Lanette (06:55):
Come on sir.
Rory The Storm (06:57):
It's almost like controlled chaos, if you will.
I do get erratic from time totime, but it fits my personality
.
And you say well, what kind ofstorm is it?
It's an amalgam of y'all needto look that word up an amalgam.
It's an amalgam of a hurricane,a thunderstorm, a tsunami, some
raindrops, whatever storm thatyou can think of, tornado,
(07:18):
whatever storm you can think of.
That's what I embody.
Irin (07:24):
What's up man.
That's beautiful man.
That's what I embody.
Lanette (07:28):
What's up?
Man that's beautiful, manthat's beautiful.
Rory The Storm (07:32):
Yeah, you my brother, but really I am.
So a lot of people.
You see, what you get on socialmedia is the storm, and my
sister can attest to this.
A few people know Rory Holmes.
My sister knows Rory Holmes.
If we can segue into the topicof blending with the French and
(07:54):
talking about blended families,I met my sister for the first
time well before you were bornand then four years later, when
you were four years old and Iwalked into the house.
I remember walking into thehouse from the airport, dad had
picked me up and I walked intothe house and you kind of looked
(08:17):
at me and you said no.
You asked, you said Mom, who isthis?
And she said that's yourbrother.
And your eyes got real big andyou said I have a brother.
I'm your brother, rory, andyou're Lynette huh, and your
eyes got really big and eitheryou ran into the room.
(08:42):
I remember you ended up leavingthe kitchen for whatever and I
was like, okay, cool, whatever.
And I went up and I spoke toSam and uh, yeah, that was that.
And I remember I ended up goingto sleep.
I went to my room and I endedup going to sleep for the day
because I was tired from thatflight, uh, from from Dallas,
texas, um, but yeah, that thatwas the beginning of your and
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our, your and my relationship,yeah.
Lanette (09:11):
I appreciate you sharing that, because I don't
even think I knew that story upuntil now.
Rory The Storm (09:17):
Mm-hmm.
Go ahead.
Lanette (09:19):
No, I was going to say like I don't.
So I have to be honest, I neverknew that you were my half
brother until.
I was in high school.
Rory The Storm (09:32):
Oh, wow, yes.
Lanette (09:33):
I never knew.
And one thing about us being ablended family that I will say
and you can correct me if I'mwrong, but it was never really
announced like, oh, this is yourstepbrother, this is your
stepsister.
When we went out, I never heardmy parents say, oh, this is my
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stepson or this is my, you knowmy son by another woman.
I never knew that until highschool.
Right, Did you have a?
Rory The Storm (10:07):
different.
So me being me at 14, 15 yearsold and all of my infinite
wisdom then, I was always goingto make it known that we have
the same father and not the samemother.
And that was just me being ajerk.
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I'll be completely honest, thatwas me being a jerk, instead of
just saying you know what youknow, it is what it is, I don't
care about these people and I'mgoing to just be honest,
absolutely.
Lanette (10:39):
I didn't care about.
Rory The Storm (10:41):
I didn't care about them church folks enough
to even say that Tildy God resther soul was my stepmom and
after a while I was just youknow what Bump it.
That's my mother, and I'll tellyou, when I really came to that
realization, me and Sam wereoutside playing wiffle ball and
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we had got into an argument orwhatever as brothers did so hold
on real quick.
Lanette (11:14):
You talked about you and Sam, which, for those who do
not know, that is my biologicalbrother.
We have the same mom and wehave the same dad and you all
have the same father, so yeah,so perhaps.
At least yeah yeah, so how oldwere you and sam, how?
What difference do you all havein age?
Rory The Storm (11:34):
we have a three-year difference.
Now.
Here's where it gets a littlefuzzy for me.
I can remember and then momtalked about it a little bit uh,
when I was like a little boy Iwould come visit, and I don't
know if you remember jasonhickman, one of my high school
teammates yes uh, me and jasonwould play together at the bowl.
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Y'all don't know the bowlerswhere the jacksonville crimsons
play basketball.
Shout out to jgs, um, um.
And so me, me and Jason Hickmanwould play together.
And then I also found out mynon-biological brother, mick.
We had the same babysitter whenwe were kids, so I guess me and
Jason and Mick have all knowneach other ever since we were
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like three years old, and so Iremembered Sam.
I think I was maybe nine.
He may have been six.
That's when they were.
I believe they were living downon Koskiasko, if I'm not
mistaken.
I vaguely remember that house,but I've always remembered 512.
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When I was 12, I came for avisit.
Sam was nine.
That's when I really realizedokay, this is my brother.
The memory started from then,but before then the details get
really fuzzy.
I do remember, though, playingin the steps of the bowl when I
was a little little kid.
Lanette (13:02):
So how was y'all relationship?
Rory The Storm (13:05):
So Sam and I, we're both off and on.
And when you go from being theeldest child To being the middle
child, it kind of he won't evertell you this, but it kind of
plays on your psyche a littlebit when you go from being an
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only child I was an only child,he won't ever tell you this, but
it kind of plays on your psychea little bit when you go from
being an only child I was anonly child so never having to
share anything with anybodybecause you know it was always
about me.
Then you go into a situationwhere man, now I got to share a
space with this dude, I got toshare toys with this dude or
share whatever, even down tosharing clothes, you know, with
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this guy.
And the selfish me was like man, I don't know this dude like
that for real, like okay, he'scool, he's my brother, y'all say
that.
But the chemistry really wasn'tthere for Sam and I and we kind
of bickered a lot until we gotto the point where we were just
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like you know what this isstupid with family, blah, blah,
blah.
And to circle back, when Ireally knew it was real, sam and
I got to an argument and shehad both of us coming to the
house, tilly had both of uscoming to the house and she oh
shoot, she hit me, she,quote-unquote whooped me with a
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fly swatter.
So, you got disciplined by her.
Yeah, and I was like you knowwhat?
This woman is really crazy.
I guess I've been this for along time.
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And I asked her probably abouta week after that, because I was
calling her miss Tilly.
Uh, I asked her.
I said is it okay if I call youmom?
Lanette (14:57):
and she said absolutely so okay, babe, you were a only
child for a while, correct?
Irin (15:05):
14 years.
Lanette (15:06):
How did that affect you bringing in a sibling?
Did you have the same feelingsthat Rory is expressing, that he
had?
Irin (15:16):
I'm going to be honest with you.
No, I moved out when I was 16,so by the time my brother was
two years old, I was already outthe house.
It was more of an uncle-nephewrelationship, so as far as like
having the actuality of BlackMac out or brother.
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Now that still to this day isstill like.
You know, it's not.
I mean, he's my brother, butwe're not in the same league
we're.
Lanette (15:45):
My son is only like a few years younger so do you feel
like his uncle versus hisbrother?
Yeah, okay, I just wanted totake a see how that was for you
if you all had similarities.
Rory The Storm (15:57):
So go ahead go ahead.
I was gonna say and so thething is between for you and I,
we're what?
11 years apart, right, and Ididn't feel like I'm not going
to understand where Aaron'scoming from, but for me, yeah,
you were a little sister All daylong.
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You felt like I wasn't, didn'tfeel like a niece or anything
like that or anybody just in thehouse.
You were definitely a littlesister, you know.
Lanette (16:27):
Is it because I was a?
Rory The Storm (16:28):
girl.
You know what?
No, no, if you were, if I wasmaybe 20 and you were four, or
if I was like 17, 18 and youwere four, then I'd have been
like who's this little kid, youknow?
But at 14, 15 years old, it wasonly 11 years different.
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So it was, you know.
It kind of looked like it waswhat's the word I want to use.
It kind of looked like it waswhat's the word I want to use.
It looked normal.
You had a 14-year-old, you hadan 11-year-old, a 15-year-old, a
12-year-old and a 4-year-old inthe house.
Irin (17:03):
See, and I think, that's.
I'm sorry, that's.
The difference is because I wasthe only child.
There was nobody else there.
So then, once my brother wasborn, I was excited for him, but
at the same time I didn't getto have that one-on-one let's go
fight, let's play football.
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We didn't have that.
Lanette (17:25):
If you and child played football with him, you would
have messed him up, we probablystill would have been laying
there.
Irin (17:32):
Yeah, so by the time he was two, like I said, by the
time he was two I was graduatingout of high school, I moved out
and I was 16.
So I still I mean I was a kidmyself looking back at it now,
but at the time, man, I wasgrown in my eyes.
Lanette (17:46):
Right.
Rory The Storm (17:47):
Right, and I know, for me, I always wanted
siblings.
So to come into a place where,even though I was selfish as I
was, to come into a place where,even though I was selfish as I
was, to come into a place where,man, I got a little brother and
I got a little sister, wow,this is cool, you know.
Lanette (18:06):
so, yeah, that's what I wanted low key and you were
blessed with me and you wereblessed with me you know, and
you were blessed with me.
Rory The Storm (18:20):
Huh, and you were blessed with me.
You know, they teach us inSunday school not to tell lies.
Lanette (18:25):
Oh boy, come on, come to Jesus.
Yeah, I love my brother.
Rory The Storm (18:33):
Here's the real, for real.
You are the embodiment of thesibling that I wanted.
The only difference is to me itwould have been perfect if you
were a boy.
Huh, because I would have beenlike as a kid brother, I could
push you around and blah, blah,blah.
But the fact that you were agirl made it even more sweet,
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because now I really I felt likeI really had to protect you and
he did y'all this one here.
Lanette (19:03):
Don't you do nothing to me, because that mortal combat
stuff that he'd be practicing onthe taekwondo, what is it?
A field or what is it?
Rory The Storm (19:14):
the mats, on the mats of the ring, when it comes
to his little sister.
Lanette (19:18):
He will use get over here and he will KO you, so
don't mess with me.
I appreciate him for that soyou feel like if I was a boy, it
would have been different itdefinitely would have been
different.
Rory The Storm (19:35):
I think we would have been different.
It definitely would have beendifferent.
I think we would have beenallowed to roughhouse you a
little more and just really pushyou around a little bit more
than we did, because at onepoint the rule of the house was
no jokes, no roasting Right,that makes me cry.
And so one of your brothers weain't going to.
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And so so one of your brotherswe ain't going to mention no
names one of your brothers wouldtry to goad you into roasting
and they'd be like are youjoaning?
Like that.
Lanette (20:06):
Are you joaning like that?
Yes, and light me up, and thenI would cry and go tell Right,
so babe do you see that here atthe house Do I see it roasting?
Yeah, and then somebody comesrunning to you crying 24-7.
And what happens when she comesrunning to you crying?
Irin (20:27):
We talk about my baby.
Lanette (20:28):
Yeah.
Irin (20:29):
We're not going to talk about what you know she do what
she's supposed to do.
Lanette (20:33):
Oh, okay, she's supposed to do that Y'all, I'm
living the same life.
So my daughter, our daughter,does what I did.
She provokes her brothers.
She doesn't.
Rory The Storm (20:44):
Oh, okay, oh yeah, oh, come on now.
You wrote the book, I wrote thebook.
Irin (20:50):
Right.
Lanette (20:52):
You wrote the book.
Well, you know, it's just.
Irin (20:55):
She still do it to this day.
Who me?
Rory The Storm (21:01):
No.
Irin (21:02):
She might not.
She's not going to talk crazy.
She ain't going to join on you,but she'll talk crazy.
And then try to run and hide nonot I.
Oh my gosh, I've doneeverything right.
Lanette (21:13):
No, I don't act that way.
Alright, brother, help himbecause he may be on the couch
tonight.
Irin (21:19):
He does.
Rory The Storm (21:24):
No, I ain't got nothing to do with that.
The only scripture I can offeris the bedroom is not defiled.
Oh my gosh.
Lanette (21:35):
Lord help him Jesus.
Rory The Storm (21:36):
Lord help him.
Jesus, lynette had an uncannyway of she couldn't beat us
physically, but Lynette is verycerebral, very cerebral, so she
had this doll Baby G.
Lanette (21:51):
That my grandmother gave to me from Honduras.
I love her.
Shout out to Granny Annie.
Rory The Storm (21:58):
So she had this baby gene and when I first met
baby gene I thought baby genewas a weapon Because she would
sling around and bust herselfout the head with this dog.
So I think the very firstaccount I had with baby gene, I
smashed her up and I think Ipunched her.
Lanette (22:16):
That was the wrong thing to do.
Rory The Storm (22:20):
The cry this little girl let out.
He punched Baby Jean.
He's not my Baby Jean, and Igot in trouble for that.
Never mind the fact that thisgirl, never mind the fact that
you were terrorizing me withthis doll and I'm like Dad,
she's hitting us with the dog.
You're bigger than me, althoughshe's a little girl.
She's six years old.
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You shouldn't, man.
Why are you letting that?
I'm just like man.
She get a pass Exactly Forbeing a butt.
Lanette (22:47):
I was just trying to help you, so shout out to me,
because if it was not for meSwingin' Baby Jean, you would
not be the Taekwondo king thatyou are today.
Irin (22:58):
Baby, he does not do Taekwondo, he's in karate.
Lanette (23:03):
Well, you wouldn't be the karate kid that you are
today.
Rory The Storm (23:08):
It's the same thing.
Kick is a kick, punch is apunch.
Everybody just have differenttheories on how it should be
used.
It is what it is.
At the end of the day, we allthrow the same picks on the same
bunch.
But no, this little girl was aterror.
Lynette, you were a terror.
Who me?
Yes, you.
But the thing is, I loved youso much so I kind of looked past
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that.
Lanette (23:31):
Love conquers all.
Rory The Storm (23:33):
Love conquers all, but you were a terror.
You used to get on my nerves.
I can't speak for our othersisters, but I know for me.
You used to get on my nerves,but I knew at the end of the day
, as a little sister, that'swhat you were supposed to do.
You know, preach, we loved eachother.
At the end of the day, we lovedeach other.
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At the end of the day, we lovedeach other.
We may have had our infighting,we still may not see eye to eye
to this day about certainthings, but there was two things
.
I know for sure that my littlesister loved me and I love my
little sister Bottom line and Iwould do anything still to this
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day.
So, aaron, don't mess up likereal long.
No, I mean, I love you, brother,but my boy, my boy, man, I told
you already, I already told youalready, man the experiences
that I had with you and Samueluh, uh, transited to later on in
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life when I married into afamily, uh, that that children
were present, and then to bringin my own children into a second
marriage, uh, after that firstdivorce, into a second marriage
where, where children werepresent.
And now, knowing how to navigatethat and I'm blessed to to to
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have found that woman and shewas doing right by those kids
and to the point where they werelike, well, you're not my dad,
you know I was able todiscipline them how I saw fit at
that time.
Um, if they cut up uh which wasrare, which is really rare, um,
she was able to discipline mine.
If they cut up uh which wasrare, which is really rare, um,
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she was able to discipline mine.
If they cut up, which was rare,um, but we, we had the
precursor to blending with theFrench's, if you will, um if I
could just stop you right herereal quick.
Lanette (25:34):
Let's go ahead rewind real quick.
Hold that thought, though.
We're on the topic ofdiscipline, right?
You mentioned that?
Uh, my mom shout out to her um,who was your stepmother?
You mentioned that at one pointshe got the floss water, and
she got you with the floss water.
Tell us as far as disciplinecame down with your stepmom,
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which was my mother how were you?
Disciplined.
Were you disciplined, did youget a free pass?
How did that work?
Because she wasn't yourbiological mother.
How was that so?
Rory The Storm (26:11):
back then kids grew up with something called
respect and so out of respectfor my father and the woman he
married, and out of respect forher being an adult, and out of
respect for my mother and beingtaught, you know you don't
disrespect adults that's wherethe discipline didn't bother me,
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you know, not as far as theeffectiveness, but her
discipline in me.
That's what I expected.
If I cut up and she was the oneclosest, okay, she was the one
that gave it to me like I was inher house.
Lanette (26:48):
I mean, you don't have to be extremely specific, like
if she.
I know she didn't abuse youbecause you're still here, but,
like I know you know, maybe mywhoopings were a little
different than your whoopingsbecause I was her biological
child, or do you feel like shedidn't care about a biological
step?
Did she just just to put us allin the way that she saw fit?
Rory The Storm (27:09):
so she did not.
Uh, status isn't didn't matterto tamar, uh, the fact that I
was a teenager 14, 15, 16, 17,18.
The fact that I was a teenager,I think, had a major, so you
were still an adolescent child.
So the physical discipline, okyeah, but when it came to me it
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was more verbal.
Now I remember there was onetime, a few times, where I
believe she might have saidsomething to Dad and he stepped
in and handled business.
But as far as discipline withmine, it was more verbal than
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anything and Mom was sharp.
Oh man, there was no getting.
You couldn't outwit TildyHolmes, you really couldn't.
I thought I was sharp, butMama's two steps ahead.
Lanette (28:07):
Always two steps ahead.
She would always tell me myfeet were going left and I'm
like no, they're not Knowingthat they were going left.
She was like those feet goingleft.
And I'm like where you talkingabout get mad Because I knew she
was right, but of course I'mtrying to defend myself.
I'm like where you talkingabout my feet ain't going left
and I'm looking down as if sheliterally told me my feet are
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going left.
She's like Lynette those feetgoing left.
It was that discernment she had.
Rory The Storm (28:37):
It.
It was that discernment she had, that it was normal.
So I said all that to say thatit was normal.
I felt like, okay, cool, sheopened up her doors because with
the same amount of disciplinecame the same amount of love.
She never differentiated thelove and it took me a long time
to understand that because Ireally thought, uh, I wanted to
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play the narrative of uh, uh,you and sam were the favorite
children and at the end I thinkI really it.
It took me into my 30s, I'm notgonna lie.
It took me into my 30s torealize we all were loved
differently and we will love thebest way they knew how children
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don't come with a man, so wewill love the best way.
They knew how dad was wrote waskind of raised with the iron
fist, so to speak.
You know, uh, uh, and he didhis best.
Mom did did her best with whatthey were given, just thankful
they were educators.
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They were two smart people Forreal, highly intelligent people,
but they thought it was bestfor us and they loved us the way
we needed to be loved Me.
I was a hard head.
I needed to be loved Me.
I was a hard head, so I neededto be, I needed to be, they
needed to stand on my neck fromtime to time.
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Sam was going to do what Samwas going to do.
Sam, to me, was always agoody-goody.
So Sam really didn't.
He stepped to me, he steppedout a little bit, but he really
wasn't going to go full throttle.
You know, he bounced out theboundaries a little bit.
Oh, let me get back to theboundaries.
You and I are enough with it,man.
Lanette (30:22):
I feel like we was like give us our whooping, we're
going to do what we got to do.
What's the consequence?
Okay, well, we'll just dealwith it.
And you know, iron, how are youwhen it came to your choices in
life, for you the type that'slike I'm going to stay in the
box or I'm going to bounce outand take the repercussions as
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they come.
Irin (30:46):
I've always did what I wanted to do.
It don't matter who you are andwhat the consequences will be,
so much so that I've had my dooroff the hinge for literally a
year.
I literally could not.
I didn't have a door on my home.
Lanette (31:04):
Like they took your door off.
Irin (31:07):
I was growing something in my room For a whole year and my
mom ran a daycare at the time.
The same as that time I had todrive-thru, we came from.
I'll do what I want.
Lanette (31:24):
So we could have been billionaires.
We could have been billionaires.
Do you remember that stuff?
Yeah, I do.
Rory The Storm (31:31):
Okay, well, we're not going to discriminate
all of us Exactly.
Irin (31:38):
Well, technically we're in Illinois, so it's legal here.
Rory The Storm (31:42):
But uh, I mean, I'm still in Texas, though, oh
yeah.
Irin (31:46):
No, but as far as uh, as far as this been on my end, it
was definitely different.
Um, it was.
You know you do something wrongat somebody's house.
They're reliable, they'reliable to whoop you or punch you
or whatever.
You know, whatever was going on, whatever they could find
whatever they could find andthrow at you.
That's what it was.
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So, yeah, as far as being agoody, two shoes, no, I just
kind of learned how to maneuveraround things.
Lanette (32:16):
I was a black sheep of the field so I was trying to be
sneaky, you know, but at thesame time, with no, I'm going to
do what I'm going to do and I'mgoing to take my consequence.
But at the same time, I don'tthink I was bold enough to just
be like oh, I'm gonna do whatI'm gonna do and let them know
that.
My actions, though, show that Iwas gonna do.
Irin (32:37):
And then well, I mean, I didn't go and necessarily tell
like, hey, my mom started doingthis.
No, I was trying to be sneaky,but I wanted some Jordan, so I
wanted umans.
I wanted the things thateverybody else had that their
parents was able to give them.
So on my end, it was not sayingthat my parents couldn't give
me what I wanted.
They did the best they could.
Lanette (32:59):
And they hadn't thought it was necessary.
Irin (33:01):
Exactly.
They're sitting there trying tobuy houses.
I'm sitting there like man, youknow.
Lanette (33:07):
I can get the stuff in there, my Air Force One oh right
.
He went to two pair, so yeah.
Irin (33:18):
I was a kid and I was in high track classes with six
bottom rows, gold teeth, twotops, princess, cut at 14.
Oh, my.
Like I said, that's not sayingnothing from the parenting
aspect, of saying that I justdid what I wanted to do and I
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was a product of my environmentand the culture.
How about that, gotcha?
Lanette (33:45):
So we have What'd you say?
So we have.
Say that again.
Rory The Storm (33:53):
Interested in life?
Lanette (33:54):
Yes, interested in life , for sure.
So we are three differentpeople Coming from Two of the
same household, but you also hadyour mother, who disciplined
you in a certain way.
So we'll just say threedifferent households that were
brought up.
How, then, as an adult Rory,you talked about you ended up
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marrying into a blended family,not one time, but twice.
So how was marrying into ablended family for you,
especially coming from achildhood of a blended family?
Rory The Storm (34:40):
To me it just felt natural.
It felt natural it wasn't athing of man.
She got kids.
Now, the first marriage I waswithout children, going into a
marriage where the woman hadchildren already.
You got kids.
(35:01):
You ain't got no kids.
But I understood the role.
I understood what it meant tobe a step parent.
My mother remarried and so Ihad a stepfather in the house at
one point.
How was that it was?
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I knew dad was my dad, but hisname was Bill.
Bill was my dad too.
Bill was there constantly anddad was just there.
Whenever, you know, whenever, Iwould go see Biddy that's our
grandma, lucille, by the way,because all of them don't know
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and I would go see Didier, righton.
I would see him and the storieshe would tell, yeah, we would
go to baseball games, we'd gosee the Astros, and this one I
was a little boy, like littlelittle boy.
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So I do and I do vaguelybecause I remember Lillian being
there a lot.
Lillian watched me a lot.
I do remember that day in thatchurch.
I do remember sitting in theback of that church and that's a
whole nother story for a wholenother time.
I'm sorry.
I do vaguely remember I'm wholenother story for a whole nother
time.
I'm sorry.
I do vaguely remember, I'msorry.
Even though I was a little boy,I do vaguely remember sitting
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in the back of that churchbecause I was cutting up.
I do because I remember lilliantrying to calm me down.
I just wouldn't calm down, um,but yeah.
So I knew he was around, I knewwho he was.
It's just, he just wasn't withyou come again.
Lanette (36:47):
So, dad, just when he back then, when you were little,
are you saying then you knowwhen it was time for him to have
you on his weeks or whatever,that you would more than likely
be with auntie or grandma?
Um?
Rory The Storm (37:02):
he would see.
I would be, I would see him anduh, but I remember spending a
lot of time with jackie andbeulah and didia lillian sherman
was there from time to time,elroy and uh.
Who else?
(37:24):
Uncle michael?
Lanette (37:25):
so these are, for those of you that do not know, these
are our cousins, these are ouraunts, uncles, um, and sometimes
this is what happens when youhave a blended family.
You know when it's time for dadto get the kids.
We know dad comes to pick upthe kids, and sometimes dad
takes the kids elsewhere, and soI didn't know if he was working
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or what have you.
Rory The Storm (37:51):
Because I mean, then I can remember I was five,
six, seven, eight, and I thinkgrandma moved back to
Mississippi at one point.
She did live in Houston at onepoint, I do remember that.
And then she I get fuzzy she,at some point she did move back
(38:13):
to Mississippi and then by then,you know, dad was in Illinois.
Um, so I there's a lot ofthings that the details get kind
of fuzzy on Right, um, but Isaid all that to say from so,
coming from a blended background, I knew what it was to be a
step-parent.
I knew the importance of beinga good role model Because, for
(38:34):
all intents and purposes, billwas a good role model.
He had his vices, like we alldo, but Bill was a good role
model.
Lanette (38:42):
How long was he in your life and is he still in your
life?
Rory The Storm (38:48):
Or oh no, he passed years ago, Maybe from the
time I was four or five upuntil the time I was about nine.
Lanette (39:04):
So then, with Mr Bill God rest his soul did you feel
as if you needed to give him ahard time because you felt like
he wasn't your father?
Or do you feel like oh man,here's a man in our home, he's
treating me nicely, Let me givehim respect.
How does that look for you?
Rory The Storm (39:26):
He was just my dad, that's just.
He was just.
He was just my dad.
I mean, that's what it was.
He was my dad.
I knew he I could.
I didn't know he wasn't,because I didn't know how that
stuff worked.
Five years old, six years old Idon't know how that stuff works
um, I knew he wasn't like mydad, but he was the dude that
(39:47):
was there fulfilling that role.
I didn't look like him.
Go ahead.
Lanette (39:53):
No, I wanted to take the time out right now to shout
out all of the men in the entireworld who are like Mr Bill, for
those men who come intochildren's lives and do not
treat their child or thechildren differently.
Although they may not be yourbiological children, you still
(40:16):
love them, you provide for them,you protect them.
That says a lot about yourcharacter as men, and I
personally want to shout out you, sweetheart, thank you, thank
you, thank you so much becauseyou have stepped up in a huge
way as our children's bonusfather.
You are there for them, youprovide, you protect.
(40:38):
And so, uh, rory, you as well.
You've been in this situation.
Thank you all so much.
It really means a lot whenchildren can look up.
Thank you all so much.
It really means a lot whenchildren can look up to you all
and not feel, feel bad aboutsituations, but they feel loved.
That really says a lot.
Rory The Storm (40:55):
Shout out to you men out there Thank you, and so
here's the thing we appreciateyou.
Here's the thing I wasn'talways the best.
If we're going to say that, Ihave to be all the way honest, I
wasn't always the best, but onething I did was I never, ever,
even though me and the mothersmay have fallen out or my
infidelities, I'm just going tobe honest my infidelities, my
(41:18):
irresponsibilities, myfoolishness, even though me and
the mothers had ourdisagreements and our falling
away, I never closed off accessto the children, whether
(41:39):
Felicia's children or Kataya'schildren.
I never cut off access.
Now, if they want to reach outor didn't want to reach out, hey
, but I never would tell them no, whether they knew that or not.
And I've had conversations asthey've gotten older, with
Felicia's children.
We've had conversations, man,and I apologize for not being
(42:05):
the role model I should havebeen Well, 100%, I should have
been 100%, but I think that's atime for a different show.
We'll have to do a part two.
Lanette (42:21):
Absolutely.
Rory The Storm (42:23):
But at that point, yes, I did step up and
was fathered for a number ofyears to Felicia's children and
then to Kataya's children andeven to this day.
You know, elena, elena willreach out and we'll chitchat a
little bit and keep it pushing.
Chit-chat a little bit and keepit pushing.
(42:44):
But for those men that arestepping into those roles, be
prepared to get abused by thosechildren.
You know, I will say I did havea great group of children.
They were very respectful, youknow.
But you know kids were kids.
They got out of pocket.
(43:10):
You know you discipline andthen you keep it pushing.
So shout out, like you said,shout out to all the men that
have stepped up in those rolesfor it and and and I, I uh, my
hat's off to you, iron, my hat'soff to you.
Man, uh, you stepped into a big, big role, man, and as Lynette,
you stepped into into a bigrole as well.
Y'all are really doing it.
I am so proud of y'all.
I know I joke a lot.
I'm talking about how sweety'all are and y'all get a
(43:31):
toothache, but I admire y'all.
Y'all are really hashtag goals.
I wish this would blow up to beon a grander scale, because
really people need to look aty'all's lives y'all, and emulate
what's going on in yourhousehold.
I may not know all the detailsand I know common sense will
(43:53):
tell me everything ain't perfectRight, but I know that you guys
are doing the absolute best job, and a great job at raising
those eight children and takingcare of that dog absolutely.
Lanette (44:11):
That really means a lot and, yes, we are not perfect by
all means.
That's why we have this podcast, because we are not only
wanting to share our story, butwe also want others to know,
like, hey, if you have uhinsight for us, please share it
with us, because we want to bethe best versions of ourselves
(44:31):
that we can be, because whenwe're the best versions of
ourselves, we can be the bestfor our children.
We know that there comesconflict, we know that there
comes uh situations, but we alsoknow that with God, all things
are possible and we know thatlove conquers all.
Love will always be.
Rory The Storm (44:53):
And that's the bottom line.
If you build the foundation onlove without getting too
spiritual, because I know that'snot me but if you build the
foundation on love, love initself if you build upon that,
you can't go wrong.
You know, if you, at the coreof the relationships between the
(45:16):
children, the relationshipsbetween the mother and the
father and the relationshipbetween the whole family, is
love, will you have bickers?
Do you have the conflict?
Yes, but if you can come downand boil it down at the end of
the day, but we love each other,I think you can't go wrong.
Lanette (45:36):
Well, everybody, you have heard it from the one and
only Rory the Storm.
We are so excited that he wasable to talk to us about being a
part of the family.
Stay tuned for part two, wherewe will continue our
conversation with him expressingwhat it's like coming from a
blended family as well ascreating his own family.
(45:59):
I'm lynette and we are blendingwith the frenchies.
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